At the start of her career, she followed the mainstream low-fat nutrition dogma taught in school at the time, until one summer her views were completely challenged. She realized she had lost 25 pounds in the course of a summer when the only things she did was eat fatty foods and observe wild wolves near the Arctic.

During this research trip, she only had access to butter, nut butter, meats like salami, cheese, and virtually no veggies — which, to her surprise, she didn’t miss at all.

This fat-fueled effortless weight loss made her do a double take on the “fat makes you fat” nutritional outlook of the time, and after some research she came to one conclusion: We should be eating more like our ancestors.

Instead of going the ketogenic or paleo route, she arrived at her own fat-based eating style and called it “primalgenic” — which is focused on eating high-quality nourishing foods according to how we evolved to eat and process nutrients.

Nora realized that nutrients are not just nutrients — their absorbability, interactions with other micronutrients in foods, and the quality of the food sources directly affect how well our bodies can use those nutrients to stay healthy.

For example, getting your protein and fat from processed cheeses and deli meats doesn’t have the same effects on your health as choosing grass-fed beef and butter.

Getting the right nutrients from high-quality foods in the adequate amounts can be challenging, but it’s fundamental for optimizing your health in the ketogenic diet. Without food quality, keto isn’t healthy.

That’s why today Nora is sitting down with me to explain how you can get the right nutrients from the right food sources.

Nora is a board-certified nutritional consultant, neurofeedback specialist, best-selling, author, speaker, researcher, and expert in primal eating. She’s done extensive research on how the human body has evolved to eat and knows exactly how we can make our diets more nourishing.

In this episode, we go over:

Why high-quality real food is the foundation for thriving on a ketogenic diet

How to find high-quality foods

Why the health of the animals you eat affect your own health

100% grass-fed vs grain-finished cows

Why choosing high-quality meats is good for our planet

Why micronutrients from supplements will never be as healthy micronutrients from foods